The status of thematic roles such as Agent and Patient in cognitive science is highly
controversial: To some they are universal components of core knowledge, to others they are …

Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or
traumatic brain injury, that affects a person's ability to communicate effectively. The aim of …

Within the cognitive sciences, most researchers assume that it is the job of linguists to
investigate how language is represented, and that they do so largely by building theories …

Abstract In 1990, Bock and Loebell found that passives (eg, The 747 was radioed by the
airport's control tower) can be primed by intransitive locatives (eg, The 747 was landing by …

Verbs that are similar in meaning tend to occur in the same syntactic structures. For
example, give and hand, which denote transfer of possession, both appear in the …

Abstract Bock et al.(1992) found that the binding of animacy features onto grammatical roles
is susceptible to priming in sentence production. Moreover, this effect did not interact with …

What are the semantic representations that underlie language production? We use structural
priming to distinguish between two competing theories. Thematic roles define semantic …

Healthy aging does not affect all features of language processing equally. In this study, we
investigated the effects of aging on different processes involved in fluent sentence …

Structural priming offers a powerful method for experimentally investigating the mental
representation of linguistic structure. We clarify the nature of our proposal, justify the …

Branigan & Pickering (B&P) advocate the use of syntactic priming to investigate linguistic
representations and argue that it overcomes several purported deficiencies of acceptability …